Appointed in 2015, she served as the 14th chair of the oldest landscape architecture department in the world and only the second female to hold the position.
She attended the college of architecture and urbanism at Simon Bolivar University in Caracas, a public institution known for its science and technology orientation.
[citation needed] Berrizbeitia contributed to several award-winning projects while practicing as a landscape architect with Childs Associates, Inc., in Boston, from 1987 to 1993.
Teaching has been an integral component to the development of her ideas, beginning with an assistant professorship of landscape architecture at Harvard (1993–98) and continuing as faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, which she joined in 1998 until 2010.
The book furthers her studies in inter-relationships by examining the Latin American Modernist context of Burle Marx that is noteworthy for its embrace of hybridity.
Her study reveals several forms of hybridity including Formal (combining types), Ecological (native/non-native)and Methodological (process/form) in Burle Marx's Parque del Este that hold particular relevance to contemporary practice in North America.